Wednesday, March 16, 2011

16th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta

The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Festival is an annual event that occurs between January and February at the OMNI Aviation Complex, in Clark Field, Angeles City, Pampanga. It features multicolored hot air balloons with more than a hundred balloon pilots from around the world. This three to four day hot air balloon event is the biggest aviation sports event in the Philippines.
The festival also features a number of events skydiving, flagjumps, micro light and racketry demonstrations, small plane fly-bys and fly-ins, remote-control airplane and helicopter flying exhibitions, freestyle aerobatics, precision maneuvers, light airplane balloon bursting, ultra-light flying formation and bomb dropping, kite- making and choreographed kite-flying, hi-start launched gliding, pylon racing, banner towing, aero-modeling symposium and races between ultra light and motorcycles. An estimated 60,000 visitors locally and around the globe come to see this event.














Sample souvenirs






















No comments:

Post a Comment